Translation of "Geschätzter kollege" in English

I agree with my fellow Member entirely.

Colleague, let me interrupt you.

I should like to say to my good and respected friend, Mr Cohen, that there is nothing immoral about .efficiency.

Mr Vogelsang was a valued operative.

Elim is a cherished colleague of long standing.

A valued associate lost his life in the process.

Paul is a good colleague, and I read his thoughts regularly.

Our esteemed colleague Michel Jauner has passed away in a tragic accident. We are speechless.

Our esteemed fellow Member, Mr Swoboda, just said that Austria wants more.

It is a huge accomplishment, and as my esteemed colleague Dr. Dre would say,

My worthy colleague from Pennsylvania has spoken with great ingenuity and eloquence.

In 2005 our much-valuated colleague Konrad Thaler passed away.

Michael Reuther is a valued colleague with a broad international profile and strong market expertise.

My appreciated colleague Ulf Drechsel will continue to present that show in his beautiful and incomparable manner.

And if you reject this directive - with respect, Mr Graefe zu Baringdorf - then please do not sign any more resolutions against unemployment.

In addition, as I am sure my esteemed fellow Member is also aware, there has been a huge incidence of fraud within Europol in recent years, which we discussed recently in this House, and this strikes me as reason enough to bring police policy, too, back within the fold of the Member States.

My esteemed Irish colleague, Mr Gallagher, who is an authority on this topic not just in Ireland but beyond, made some very pertinent points when he spoke about the nonsense of shared quotas for two separate areas for the one stock.

Our esteemed German colleague has taken a lot of trouble to come up with some entirely new proposals, and it is also true that he has worked under tremendous time pressure so that we would be able to table a first draft at the Vienna summit.

It may come as no surprise to you that I actually voted in favour of this report, given that the author was a very good Conservative, British colleague of mine.

As my esteemed colleague Mr Hughes has said, this is a matter for Council and we should not use it as a delaying or blocking tactic.

I should like to congratulate Mrs Oddy and also my colleagues who have tabled amendments, for example, Amendment No 45, that my dear colleague Mr Cassidy is criticising.

Mr President, a few weeks ago, my estimable friend and Yorkshire colleague, Edward McMillan-Scott, brought the chairman of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to this assembly and presented him as a legend in his own lunchtime and a top climate science guru - and I have to say that he certainly looked like a guru to me - but it turns out that he is a railway engineer who writes mucky books.

Are we really in a process of creating a European demos, as my honourable colleague Mr Hannan just told us?

Mr President, the report that our esteemed German colleague Mr Brok is finally presenting to Parliament today is in essence the follow-up to and completion of a draft report presented earlier by another esteemed colleague, Mr Giampaolo d'Andrea, who has since become a deputy minister in the Italian Government and has therefore left us rather earlier than expected.

When everyone is given an opportunity and when a figure from Ireland, such as yourself, can become President of the European Parliament and our much-respected colleague, Mr Santer, from Luxembourg, can become President of the European Commission, then Europe is a continent that respects the dignity of all people and all Europeans.

I must say that I do not recognise the rather negative characterisation of the Constitution by another good friend – Mr Bonde.

However, I would just say to the honourable Member who said that he wished Mr Verheugen, my distinguished colleague, had been able to state the advantages of the Annan plan more vigorously, that Mr Verheugen would have loved to do so, but when he tried in Cyprus, he was stopped.

This new report is very important, in particular for unblocking pipeline cases, which I know will give my good and eminent colleague, Mr Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado, very great pleasure.